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Zhang Jiayi's team reveals the important role of the optic cortex in the prediction of temporal information
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
Schematic diagram of human and mouse temporal prediction behavior, EEG signals, and temporal cell plasticity The perception and prediction of various signals that occur at different time intervals in the environment are of great significance to the survival and evolution of animals.
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Chinese scholars have made progress in the study of supercoordinated carbon-gold cluster function
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
Figure Intracellular mechanism of action of supercarbohydra With the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (approval number: 22025105, 21772111, 21821001), Zhao Liang's team of
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The Faculty of Life Sciences professor proposes a new hypothesis for the origin of seed programs
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
In addition to providing a fresh perspective on the origin of seed programs, this paper also reveals a noteworthy phenomenon: in current biological research, a considerable part of the "function" of specific genes is defined based on the phenotype of mutants of these genes, and mutants often come from model organisms at the end of the evolutionary system of life (i.
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A new generation of tumor-specific anti-PD-1-IL-15 immunotherapy drugs
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
To ensure that the masked IL-15 can effectively activate effector cells within the tumor and exert anti-tumor effects, the researchers added PD-1 antibody (aPD-1) to build a aPD-1-IL-15 fusion protein.
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Animal evolutionary adaptation and the Endangered Species Conservation Discipline Group published a paper in Cell Reports to reveal a new mechanism for the adaptation of plateau pika to the low-oxygen environment of the Tibetan Plateau
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
The structure and composition of mammalian pulmonary surfactant (PS) play an important role in maintaining lung gas exchange and body immunity, and abnormal composition and structural changes of pulm
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Microbial enzymes are key to the digestion of pectin in leaf nails
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
In this case, the role of pectinase, the pectin-degrading enzyme, is key to efficient digestion of leaf beetle food," said first author Roy Kirsch.
In this case, the role of pectinase, the pectin-degrading enzyme, is key to efficient digestion of leaf beetle food," said first author Roy Kirsch.
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Reproductive ecology combined with population genetics reveals pansexual mulberry parasitism...
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
Host-mediated effects in the reproductive phenological asynchrony of a generalist mistletoe in China (2) The spatial distribution pattern of the five-ruby parasite was investigated in 13 samples in 4 sites, and the heterogeneity and population genetic structure of 76 parents and 829 offspring in 4 sites were calculated using 13 microsatellite markers, and the fine-scale spatial genetic structure was analyzed on 166 five-branched parasitic individuals infected in 4 mango trees in the same group.
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Science Advances: Iron deficiency suppresses important functions of the innate immune system
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
It inhibits the maturation of neutrophils, as well as their defenses," Bruno Galy said, adding: "The limitation of available iron is obviously a double-edged sword: on the one hand, the body thus stops the spread of bacteria.
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Immune cell dysregulation is a driver of COVID-19 severity
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
Image source: Science Translational MedicineIn one of the largest single-center COVID-19 cohort studies to date, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai used samples collected during the peak of the pandemic in New York City to identify a key driver of disease severity affecting COVID-19.
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Scientists peel back the ancient DNA of bananas and discover three "mysterious ancestors"
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
, 07 October 2022 It is generally believed that bananas were first domesticated by the people of the island of New Guinea 7,000 years ago.
, 07 October 2022 It is generally believed that bananas were first domesticated by the people of the island of New Guinea 7,000 years ago.
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Self-assembly has been taken to the next level
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
Image courtesy of Brujic LabImage: Microscopic images show that alternating blue and yellow droplets are folded into coronal geometry by blue-blue, blue-yellow, and finally yellow-yellow interactions, mediated by viscous DNA strands.
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Tsinghua University's latest Nature article: NuA4 Mechanism of Selective Acetylated Histone H4
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
The NuA4 complex, consisting of 13 subunits, is divided into two large modules (Figure 1c): the histone acetyltransferase (HAT) and the transcription activator-binding (TRA).
The NuA4 complex, consisting of 13 subunits, is divided into two large modules (Figure 1c): the histone acetyltransferase (HAT) and the transcription activator-binding (TRA).
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Professor Wang Xiaowei's team from the College of Agriculture published a paper in PNAS to reveal the co-evolutionary mechanism of mutual adaptation of plant twin viruses and their mediator insects
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
Recently, Professor Wang Xiaowei's team at the College of Agriculture published a report entitled "A balance between vector survival and virus transmission is achieved through JAK/STAT" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America signaling inhibition by a plant virus" research paper.
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Slows down the disease process of "sudden death"
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
Loss of Nuclear Envelope Integrity and Increased Oxidant Production Cause DNA Damage in Adult Hearts Deficient in PKP2: A Molecular Substrate of ARVC Traditional medicine can slow the development of heart disease.
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Science's new study provides critical information about glioma size and growth rate
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
A noncoding single-nucleotide polymorphism at 8q24 drives IDH1-mutant glioma formation A study led by Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered an important new clue to the prevention and treatment of glioma.
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Orca vs Jaws The new paper shows for the first time that DJI drones shoot videos of orcas hunting down great white sharks
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
An open-access new paper published October 6 in the journal Ecology of the American Ecological Society presents video footage of predation events taken by two groups of drones, providing new evidence
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The Chengdu Institute of Biology has made new progress in the influence of soil phosphorus composition by land use change on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
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Early cancer detection is performed from cell-free DNA in blood samples
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
Their study, published in the journal Nature Communications, highlights a method that is more than 12 times more cost-effective than traditional cfDNA methyl group sequencing methods, as well as a computational model for extracting information from DNA sequencing to aid in early detection and diagnosis.
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Why are brain disorders at genetic risk? Neanderthal DNA may provide some answers
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
The article Neandertal introgression partitions the genetic landscape of neuropsychiatric disorders and associated behavioral phenotypes It has long been known that human brain diseases such as neurological or psychiatric disorders can occur in families, suggesting that there is a certain hereditary nature.
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Hailin Peng's research group and collaborators in the School of Chemistry report on ultra-flat graphene wafer transfer and integrated optoelectronic devices
Time of Update: 2022-10-13
/Si, sapphire) dry lamination and non-destructive release, wafer-level non-lossy, clean, less doped uniform ultra-flat graphene film, showing the uniform high mobility device transport properties, observed room temperature quantum Hall effect and fractional quantum Hall effect, and constructed a 4-inch wafer-level graphene thermoelectron light-emitting array device, showing significant radiant thermal effect in the near-infrared wavelength band.
